A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1597- 



into this river, though wee rowed very hard it was noone 

 before wee overtooke the bigger shallop wherein both the 

 Captaines were. This night we came to a towne called 

 Vaperon, where wee stayed all Saturday and the night 

 following, for Casavi: whereof they baked good store 

 for us being but a fewe left in the towne. For not 

 a moneth before wee came thither, the Waccawaes 

 that dwell above the falles came downe to the 

 towne, and slewe some tenne of them, and many 

 of the rest fled away, so that wee found most of the 

 houses emptie. Upon Sunday morning being May day, 

 wee went from this place, and by night gotte some twelve 

 leagues beyond, and being past all townes wee lodged 

 as before in the woods, and the next day came to the 

 falles of the river ; up some of which falles we shotte with 

 our boates, and going upon a rocke there came some nine 

 canoas up the river to us, and would have gone up with us 

 to kill the Waccawayans, because they had killed some of 

 them, as before is said. Whereupon the Captaines and 

 Master Monax tooke advise : and because nowe they had 

 learned, as they sayde, that five dayes journey farther 

 there was a fall not passable, and that by this meanes they 

 should make the Wacchawayans their enemies, which 

 would turne to our great hurt, when Sir Walter Ralegh 

 should come thither, having occasion to use this river, 

 where wee were informed was good store of golde, they 

 resolved to returne, though I yeelded divers reasons to the 

 contrary. So upon Tuseday night, we came backe to 

 Vaperon, where we lodged. 



And upon Wednesday the fourth of May, wee came to 

 our shippes : where it was reported that the Spaniardes were 

 gonne out of Desekebe, which was not so : but as it 

 seemed in policie by them given out to make our men 

 that wee left in our shippes more carelesse, that they 

 might the easier have surprised them in our absence. 

 The next night wee had newes brought us to Mawranamo, 

 where we yet roade, that there were tenne canoas of 

 Spaniardes in the mouth of Coritine ; and fearing lest they 



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